coprs and personal repos: [Was: Re: Firefox 4 for Fedora 14?]

[seth vidal]

On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 21:49 +0200, drago01 wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 9:37 PM, seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2010-07-28 at 14:12 -0500, Mike McGrath wrote:
> >
> >> Maybe baby steps?  Small incremental changes.  Sure some features will be
> >> missing that kopers will provide.  But perhaps we could just create a
> >> Fedora-13-devel tag in koji, push it to it's own repo or to individual
> >> fedora-13-spot / fedora-13-mmcgrath repos.  One that doesn't migrate to
> >> updates-testing or updates.  It just sits there.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> We're going to need something like this when kopers comes out anyway
> >> right?  I figure smaller steps towards that goal is better then one big
> >> one.
> >
> > Toshio and I have talked about the targets of coprs and what the
> > problems are we're trying to solve. Here are the problems:
> >
> > 1. I want to build these pkgs which have small patches to what's in
> > fedora but I don't have the archs to build them on
> >   :solved by scratch builds in koji
> >
> > 2. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in
> > fedora but I don't have the machines to build them on
> >   :solved by scratch builds in koji
> >
> > 3. I want to build these pkgs which have patches/changes to what's in
> > fedora but I don't have a place to host them
> >   :provided, but not explicitly encouraged or endorsed by
> > fedorapeople.org
> >
> > 4. I want to build these pkgs and they have new deps on pkgs which are
> > not in fedora and I need to chain-build them from arbitrary
> >   :not provided by anything currently since you cannot build pkgs in
> > koji with arbitrary deps from arbitrary repos.
> 
> 5. Some easy way to enable/disable such repos other than messing with
> config files?

yum-config-manager --enable repo1 repo2 repo3

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